Genicpunk
Genicpunk is an ideology based on inclusive plurality. It involves rejecting the stereotypes that come with the traditional "-genic" labels and refusing to fit into any one box.
Instead, Genicpunk is trying to take a hybrid view of medical and non-medical approaches to your system in a way that benefits you, rather than confining your choices and presentation to a single label that could never truly explain a multifaceted and highly personal thing like how your system formed.
There are a few main components to Genicpunk:
• The complete & utter rejection of any constraints of being a medical or non-medical system. It's a way to recognise how your system is unique and you don't have to fit into a box. Embrace the strange or abnormal ways you function over trying to force them to fit an expected standard.
• The freedom to identify as both medical & non-medical, or neither. There is no such thing as a contradictory label. You know your system best.
• The freedom to hold both spiritual and psychological views about your own system. Again, embrace the odd parts of your system. Don't try to iron out or hide things that don't fit the norm or what's expected from a system like yours. Stereotypes should be challenged.
• The rejection of other people's unwarranted opinions on your system and its status. They don't get to tell you anything about your system because they are not you, and likely, they don't even know you. On a less personal level, this could be stepping away from syscourse and living & letting live.
Why was this coined?
We felt that the community as a whole places too much emphasis on system origins. People judge others by a simple -genic label and feel that they can define how your system functions and how it should act by a single word. We don't believe that things are ever as clear cut as people like to make out, and would rather reject a label that invites other people to stereotype us.
In a similar fashion, syscourse is a looming monster over the community, and the origins of people's systems often incite harrassment. We believe that as a community we should try to overlook origins and try to accept others for who they are now, not who they were and what happened to them. We don't want to define our identity now with a label based on past trauma.
Genicpunk is an attempt by us to say "I don't want a -genic label to define us," and to step aside from the connotations of words like traumagenic or endogenic, but still be present as an ally to endogenic systems. Our origins aren't that important. We just are.
Who can call themselves genicpunk?
It would be the opposite of what Genicpunk as an ideal is to gatekeep the term to a particular type of plural experience, therefore: anyone who wants to. Traumagenic, endogenic, DID, non-disordered, a combination of labels, labels you just coined yesterday- if you like what Genicpunk stands for, use it. You can also use it in combination with other system origin labels, or as one alone. It's up to you.
However, there are two restrictions on the term- you should be inclusive and accepting of other's choices on how to label their system and you should be taking the label in good faith, to further your personal self discovery, recovery or both.
If you're a sysmed/system exclusionist/anti-endo and you choose to call yourself Genicpunk, you have missed the point entirely. Congratulations.
About the coiner
The Indigo Orrery is a radical inclusionist, neurodiverse Genicpunk DID system, chronically ill & disabled. We use he/him or he&/him& pronouns and identify as a genderqueer male.
In our spare time, when not studying, we play video games, write and complain about politics on the internet.